In 2018 research, nearly half of age 18-24 women said they supported or were active participants in the reproductive rights movement.
📌Navajo-Hopi Observer No excuse, mail-in voting is constitutional, Arizona judge ruled in GOP lawsuit
PHOENIX â In a lawsuit brought by the Arizona Republican Party, Judge Lee Jantzen of Mohave County Superior Court, ruled June 6 that mail-in balloting is constitutional. That is good news for Native American voters in Arizona, [whose rural locations often make it hard getting to a polling place].
Jaynie Parrish ,<sup><big>a kosak! </big></sup> executive director for the Navajo County Democrats , said lots of people who are on the Permanent Early Voting List would have been affected, and those include lots of Native Americans. She said in February, as Navajo County Democrats instituted a new program called Family Votes [lead by long-experienced Matriarchs from rural and tribal communities of the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe, White Mountain, Yavapai and San Carlos Apache Nations]. "We definitely have to make sure that all the people we're trying to reach out to know they can update their registration with us..."
<big>June 14 âAs Stacey Abrams said, âWe can overwhelm the system with our presence.â To put it another way, our Democratic and Independent votes can win the midterms. This is why we created the Family Votes Matriarch program under the Northeast Arizona Native Democrats. Several weeks ago we set in motion our innovative grassroots initiative to recruit and train more Indigenous Matriarchs so that they can register their families and communities to vote, then get them to the polls. There is no limit to what can be accomplished, genuine community change, advocacy, holding leadership positions, and, best of all, running for office. Women in our communities are the direct line and the heart of our social structures, based on clanship and kinship. For generations weâve been the civic engagement directors. Women in our communities get things done.â</big>
...The White House released a report in March, which addressed how Native Americans and Alaska Natives vote at lower rates than the national average, though a surge in voting contributed to President Joe Biden's win in Arizona, a state that hadn't supported a Democrat since 1996âŚ
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📌<big><big>Weâve all have seen the story about the 10-year-old who had to travel out of state for an abortion, </big> and the journalistic malpractice that tried to cast doubt on her reality. Here's a WaPo piece on the way journalists and politicians tried to wish this story out of existence.</big>
📌HuffPoWomen Ohio Girl's Abortion Doctor Fires Off Cease-And-Desist Warning To Indiana Attorney General
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokitaâs derisive, unfounded attacks against Dr. Caitlin Bernard are utterly âfalse and defamatoryâ and risk inciting âharassment and violence,â which could prevent Bernard from safely providing care to her patients, said the letter sent Friday. Rokitaâs action âforms the basis of an actionable defamation claim,â the letter warnedâŚ.
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📌AlJazeera Photos: Child marriages and FGM rising in drought-hit Horn of Africa
📌FullerProject The hidden toll on women of South Asian heat waves.
📌ReutersFndn Ahead of Kenya elections, women politicians face more vicious online abuse
📌 ReutersFndn Ecuadorâs Indigenous Women create a trauma center amid growing violence in the Amazon
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📌The19th . Latina veterans saw themselves in Vanessa GuillĂŠn. A new documentary tells their stories. Andrea PatiĂąo Contreras, the filmâs director, speaks about making the film, the resilience of survivors of military sexual violence. <small>[wik: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Vanessa_Guill%C3%A9n ] </small>
📌Bustle BBCâs Maryland Is An âArtistic Responseâ To Violence Against Women based on the original Lucy Kirkwood play.
Co-directed with acclaimed documentary-maker Brian Hill, BBCâs Maryland grapples with violence faced by women and takes inspiration from recent real-life events, including the tragic murders of British women Sarah Everard , Bibaa Henry, Nicole Smallman , and Sabina Nessa. The plot centres on two individual Marys who cross paths at a police station following their respective sexual assaultsâŚ. âThey are supported by a cast of Furies who rail against the injustices the women face, both in the events of the play and in the wider world..â
📌reuters via medscape in a Thursday filing in Jackson, Mississippi federal court, GenBioPro Inc, which makes a generic version of the drug mifepristone, said F.D.A. approval of the drug means the SCOTUS recent ruling eliminating nationwide right to abortion nevertheless does not allow Mississippi to stop the abortion drug manufacturer from selling its product there.
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📌medscape slide-show âMedscape Physicians' Views on Gender Discrimination : Strong Emotions, Contrary Opinions.â
📌medscape Doctors Fear Violating Abortion Laws Post Roe v. Wade
📌Undark via medscape How abortion laws affect prenatal genetic screening and doctors' ability to discuss options if fetus is unviable.
📌AlJazeera The US House of Representatives has voted to restore abortion rights across the country...
...after the nationâs highest court last month overturned its landmark Roe v Wade decision, setting off protests and calls for action from lawmakers.
The Democratic-controlled House passed the bill with 219 votes in favour and 210 against on Friday afternoon, but it has little chance of becoming law because it lacks the necessary support in the evenly divided SenateâŚ.
📌WebMD via medscape Formalizing an existing work group, <big>the Justice Department announced launching a Reproductive Rights Task Force to prevent state and local governments from overreaching on the basis of the Dobbs decision. </b> The task force will monitor state and local legislation and consider legal action against states that ban abortion medication, out-of-state travel for an abortion, and other measures trying block reproductive health services that are authorized by federal law. The task force includes representatives from the Justice Department's civil division, civil rights division, U.S. attorneys' offices, Office of the Solicitor General, Office for Access to Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, Office of Legal Policy, Office of Legislative Affairs, Office of the Associate Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, and Office of the Attorney General. The task force is charged with coordinating federal government responses, working across federal agencies, including on proactive and defensive legal action.
...The Justice Department will also continue to work with external groups, such as reproductive services providers, advocates, and state attorneys general offices. It will also work with the Office of Counsel to the President to hold a meeting with private pro bono attorneys, bar associations, and public interest groups to encourage lawyers to represent patients, providers, and others in reproductive health services cases....
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📌rebel gaâs righteous rant: Note To GOP - Are You People Totally Crazy? What Is Your Love Affair, With A Deadly Weapon? Videos, links, images â energy!